Jack Alexy on Balancing ‘Overnight’ Success with Chasing Olympic Goals

2024 PRO SWIM SERIES – KNOXVILLE

Jack Alexy asserted himself on the sprinting stage this summer, winning silver medals in the 50 and 100 free at the 2023 World Championships. Moving into the Olympic year, Alexy is trying to take confidence from his performances in Fukuoka while still staying hungry for more, knowing the Olympic Trials can be a pressure cooker to perform at.

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Babashoff - Woodhead - Evans - Ledecky
10 months ago

Jack Alexy reminds me of Nathan Adrian.

If he wins 100 free in Paris, it would equal the upset Adrian caused in London.

mds
10 months ago

2 1/2 years ago Alexy began a charge of young American male sprinters that is just now beginning to crest.

Alexy set the NAG 17-18 LCM 100 free record at the last OT(6-15-21) with the :48.69 you noted in the article. He did that time in prelims, making the semifinals where he finished 10th at :48.82.  
Alexy’s current PBs are: flat start :47.31 and rolling start :47,00 (both Fukuoka). 

Dressel was the previous record holder at :48.87 from 8-8-15, holding the mark for a hair less than 6 years. Alexy’s mark lasted just over 2 years before being surpassed at :48.47 (6-26-23) by Jonny Kulow of Lander, Wyoming, after his freshman year at Arizona State. 

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OSKI
Reply to  mds
10 months ago

Even though they are over 20 Destin and Matt King are very young as well great list

Jalen T
10 months ago

Even though I don’t like Phelps when will we get an young American swimmer who can win us gold medals at young age? I believe Phelps had 8? World champ medals by the age of 18. Meanwhile the international young men…. Are leading

Washed swimmer
Reply to  Jalen T
10 months ago

Hate to be the one to break this to you but we’ll never get another Phelps in our lifetime

Jonny Newsom
10 months ago

The next great Cal sprinter has arrived and he’s only gonna get a lot better.

saltie
Reply to  Jonny Newsom
10 months ago

Andrew punching the air rn. How dare a Cal swimmer do well!

Melissa Moss
10 months ago

Great interview, so poised & love the gratitude. Watching this also highlights that Jack, and so many swimmers, were bravely resilient throughout the Pandemic and all of its impediments to training for many swimmers globally.

Chlorinated One
10 months ago

What a focused, poised, and grounded gentleman! So nice to hear an interview where “like” is not ever third word. Best of luck Jack as your achieve your goals one step at a time!

AQW
Reply to  Chlorinated One
10 months ago

Almost all untrained speakers use fillers when speaking extemporaneously—“like” has become the default; Jack’s filler is “you know”.

Looking forward to, you know, cheering him on this year! 🙂

I miss the ISL
Reply to  AQW
10 months ago

Kate Douglass does this with “yeah I mean.” In every single one of her interviews she says it at least once. It’s like clockwork. Its so funny

HeGetsItDoneAgain
Reply to  Chlorinated One
10 months ago

He just substitutes “like” for “um” and “you know”

Trajan
10 months ago

Thank you Benny Safdie

Moving Mark
10 months ago

Here is the thing.. Dressel goes out as being USA top sprinter and then we have no one else? So a mid 48 will blow our minds. 47 high now wont even be close to medaling at a championship meet. Our relays are smoked too

Moving Mark
Reply to  Moving Mark
10 months ago

We have Carson foster swimming in the A final of the 100 free? He is a 400 im and 500 free guy Common now

Facts
Reply to  Moving Mark
10 months ago

Damn Foster catching a stray. He’s still a top 4 200 freestyler in the country so it wouldn’t be too surprising for him to make an A final in the 100 at a Pro swim series. With your logic it would be even more concerning that Lily King made a 400 IM A final

Outside Smoke
Reply to  Moving Mark
10 months ago

In my experience as a pure sprinter, the distance guys were always semi-competitive in the 100 throughout the season until taper kicked in and then we left them in the dust.

Smglsn12
Reply to  Outside Smoke
10 months ago

I always noticed this too, they just had a ceiling of very slightly faster than the first 100 of their 200s

Outside Smoke
Reply to  Smglsn12
10 months ago

Exactly. Then our fast twitch kicked in on taper and theirs very much did not.

mds
Reply to  Coleman Hodges
10 months ago

And that was before sub-20 year-olds like Kulow, Sammon, Williamson, Winkler, Branzell, and McFadden, among others, are even folded into the discussion.

Brosef
Reply to  Moving Mark
10 months ago

Dude Santo is back in the states we’re gonna be fiiiiine 👌

‘Murica
Reply to  Moving Mark
10 months ago

Uh…the guy in the video medaled at worlds…

chazoozle
Reply to  Moving Mark
10 months ago

When is the last time the US was the clear favorite in the 4 x 100?

ReneDescartes
Reply to  chazoozle
10 months ago

Being the favorite and winning the gold are two different things. Which would you prefer?

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Coleman Hodges

Coleman started his journey in the water at age 1, and although he actually has no memory of that, something must have stuck. A Missouri native, he joined the Columbia Swim Club at age 9, where he is still remembered for his stylish dragon swim trunks. After giving up on …

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